Put simply, this means you can just show the ticket on your smartphone when you arrive at the gate or venue, rather than giving yourself a full-body pat-down as you desperately try to recall which pocket you you put the paper ticket in.

Google revealed the update during its annual I/O bash for developers, which is taking place this week close to its Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California.

Google Pay already lets you store credit cards and loyalty cards, but this week’s update helps take it closer to Apple’s iPhone offering, which for a number of years has allowed users to keep mobile tickets inside what is now the Wallet app. The update has been a while coming, but it’s certainly a decent boost to Google Pay’s functionality and should be warmly received by users of the mobile payments system.

Google Pay has also finally come to the web for desktop and iOS devices, enabling online shoppers on supported sites to checkout with the service.

Google combined its disparate payment programmes, including Android Pay and Google Wallet, into a single brand dubbed Google Pay earlier this year, but, until now, it has been restricted to Android devices.

Now, shoppers using Chrome, Safari and Firefox will start seeing the Google Pay option, no matter their device. And, if they save a card to Google Pay on a Pixelbook, they will be able to use it on the web with another device, like an iPhone.

The move finally brings Google Pay inline with Apple Pay, which has been available as a web payments option for two years, joining PayPal in the fight to make e-commerce payments easier and bring down the number of abandoned shopping carts.

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